Candyman Bites It

Nello Ferrara, creator of the Atomic FireBall and the Lemonhead, has died. Atomic FireBalls were the consensus favorite candy at the New England summer camp I went to as a boy, and being able to eat one without panting was a badge of honor. So it’s a little disturbing to learn this: “Mr. Ferrara came up with the idea of spicy-hot Atomic FireBalls in 1954, after serving in Occupied Japan in the post-atom bomb era, according to his son, company CEO Salvatore Ferrara II.” Ferrara was 93.